Group_Project_3

Contributers of this project (alphabetical order):

• Chase Reynolds
• Irena Mehic
• Jae Zakarauskas
• Joanna Gromek
• Ning Gao
• Yanqiu Yang

Project Title: World Air Quality Visualization

Project Description:

1.What our application does

An interactive global map showing the World Air Quality Index via Kaggle.com, a merge of two seperate datasets, one with over 14,000 cities and their corresponding coordinates, the other with date on air pollution levels in countries worldwide.

• A heat map to show the air quality index based on the standard AQI Color Scale (We changed the color scale to make it look better), with a dropdown menu to choose different country. When you choose the specific country, you can also see the detailed AQI info in that country.

• A choropleth map that user can click on the country to see the detailed info of each country's AQI information.

2.What technology we use

Project Progress:

1.The propoal and sketch of the final design: click here to view

2.Our Powerpoint of the Final Presentation: click here to view

Some of the features we hope to implement in the future:

• Forest fire data would be useful since the smoke has a dramatic impact on air pollution. Create a heat map showing real time forest fires

• Global deforestation data shows when vast areas of trees are stripped, and stored carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Deforestation contributes to 15% of greenhouse gas emissions. Create a heat map showing real time global deforestation data.

• Investigate global livestock datasets because farming and the food industry is a major contributor to air pollution.

• More specific data on the effects of manufacturing and burning of fossil fuels

• SO2 data was not included in the data set, but it’s a major pollutant in air quality